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Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
-Chinese Proverb
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Skeptics are never deceived.
-Proverb
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The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
-Proverb
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Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
-Proverb
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Doubt is the key to knowledge.
-Proverb
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
-Joseph Addison
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
-Akhenaton
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
-Woody Allen
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
-Francis Bacon
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
-Francis Bacon
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
-Francis Bacon
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
-Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
-Philip James Bailey
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
-Hosea Ballou
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
-Hosea Ballou
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I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything.
-Gerald Barzan
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
-Morris Bender
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Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
-Bhagavad Gita
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
-William Blake
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha
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Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
-Frederick Buechner
Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
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Books about Doubt
